Ukraine's Parliament plans on Thursday to consider a draft law on the GTS
Ukraine's Parliament on Thursday wish to consider in General the draft law authorizing the government to make the operator of the gas transportation system (GTS) of the country in which to 49% will be able to get investors from the US and the EU, according to the agenda of the Verkhovna Rada for the current week.
Rada adopted the document in the first reading in early July. Consideration was very hard, in the people's representatives were many comments to the law. For example, a number of parliamentarians insist that in preparation for the second reading the document was supplemented with a provision about approval of the shareholders of the operator GTS specifically by the Verkhovna Rada.
the draft law, approved by Parliament, provides that the operator will be entitled to management and/or concession or lease " main gas pipelines and underground storages.
the MPs equally on Thursday suggest to consider in General the draft law, allowing the government to introduce a special period in the fuel and energy complex in the case of limits of delivery of gas and oil in the country. This document was adopted in the first reading in early July, shortly once Russia's Gazprom transferred the Ukrainian state company Naftogaz for prepayment and, accordingly, stopped deliveries of its gas.
the draft law gives the government the opportunity to take a decision on the obligatory sale of natural gas private gas producing enterprises for the needs of residents and heating utilities in the amount established by the Cabinet of Ministers.
During the special period are also allowed, in case of non-payment for consumed gas, to limit the supply of objects of sphere of a heat supply below technological minimum gas consumption, and for objects of sphere of a heat supply, for which you set the economically justified tariff, permitted restriction of energy supply to the technological minimum.